Genesis 17:8 meaning and explanation
And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
Genesis 17:8, Berean Standard Bible
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God is speaking to Abram, now renamed Abraham, at ninety-nine, still waiting for the promised son. The land where he lives as a foreigner, all of Canaan, is promised to his descendants as an eternal possession.
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